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Terri Schiavo's Painful Euthanasia Death Began One Year Ago Today

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
March 18, 2006
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Clearwater, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Terri Schiavo's
painful 13 day-long euthanasia death began one
year ago today. After spending several years
fighting to protect their daughter's right to
live, Terri's parents were told to leave, unable
to be with their daughter as her estranged
husband began the process that killed her.

Only Michael Schiavo was present when doctors removed the feeding
tube.

"Please, please, please save my little girl," a
tearful Mary Schindler told a news conference.

Michael refused and instead took his case to the
media. "I am 100 percent sure," that killing
Terri is the right thing to do, he told NBC's "Today" program.

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In what the Schindler family considered a further
slap in the face, final word of the feeding tube
removal reached some reporters when the brother
of Michael's live-in girlfriend stepped out of
their house and disclosed what had happened.

Cheryl Ford, a nurse and spokeswoman for the
Schindler Foundation at the time, who has written
a new book called Our Fight for Terri, said
Michael also held a private religious service for
Terri. He refused to allow the Schindler family to attend.

"Terri's parents were asked to leave their daughter's room," she
said.

The removal of the feeding tube was also
surrounded with controversy. Staff at Woodside
Hospice, where Terri lived, insisted that Terri's personal doctor do
it.

Terri last received any food or water at 11 a.m.
that morning and died 13 days later.

Like Terri's parents, family and supporters, Ford
was upset that Terri was treated so inhumanely during the euthanasia
death.

"There was no reason to pull her tube and put her
through pain and discomfort," Ford concluded.
"They could have capped her feeding tube off and
prevented the pain she experienced from having a
feeding tune pulled from her abdomen."

President Bush phoned his brother, Florida
Governor Jeb Bush, and told him he supported his
efforts to prevent her death and Congressional
condemned what happened and tied to stop it.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Congress
was "dedicated to saving Terri Schiavo's life."

But Circuit Court Judge George Greer, who
authorized Terri's euthanasia death, wouldn't
back down, even in the face of Congressional subpoenas attempting to
stop him.

"I have had no cogent reason why the
(Congressional) committee should intervene," Greer said.

Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said
it was a "sad day for our country" to starve a
woman to death. For the Schindler family, there is still sadness.

Related web sites:
Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation -
http://www.TerrisFight.org



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